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SPECTOR® Club - Part 55

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Great vibe - the effects sound really nice. I can see what you mean about not wanting a click. That's one of the biggest challenges I see when recording something "free-form" into a DAW. I do so much of my drum and keys stuff by MIDI editing that I inevitably want to assign a "grid" to it, but that kind of takes the magic away on a piece like this. There are ways to modify the metronome with timing curves and such, but that gets to be tedious.

I could see this piece as a cool intro to a song that starts with the riff you are playing around the 3:00 mark. I kept hearing guitars and drums come in and join you on it after a couple passes. :bassist:

Thanks Bunk, we don't have a drummer yet. This is a new band I'm putting together since that last band split, and the guitar player and myself are just writing till we get everyone in place.
 
I had been working on a intro to one of our songs. I had shared it with Omer a few weeks ago and didn't have a chance to work on it till yesterday. I was going to loop some stuff in but I didn't want to put a metronome in cause it was messing with my vibe, plus no one will be playing it with me so times not important. When I made the little sample riff up yesterday I thought it would go good with the song and make a easy chorus or verse. This is the 86 white Brooklyn, into MXR Carbon Copy with Analogman Chorus. The dirt is B3k and all ran into my Monique all tube preamp to the Audiobox USB. Software is Studio One2. Everything is flat and no processing out of Studio One. Thanks for listening and give me some feed back. I'm new to the home recording thing. Still to tackle midi drums:confused:

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Very nice and catchy...Nice tone also :cool:
 
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OK sound comparison time - let me know what you guys think sounds better.

I was going to do the guessing game thing but a couple things weren't equal so I didn't want to skew the results.

Track 1 is the Kramer NS-2 with Rotosound Drop Zones.

Track 2 is the Euro 435 (matte) with CK's.

Both are setup BEAD. I was trying to EQ both the same way from the bass but I probably could have used more bass on the 435. The signal path is bass -> Avalon U5 (tone setting 2) active thru to -> Sansamp RBI -> RME interface. The U5 and RBI go to separate tracks and one is phase inverted.

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That's some badass riffage right there, Andrew! Diggin' it big time. NS-2 all day on this one.
 
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Added the first coat of tung-oil to the Legend body today and I am happy with the way it is turning out. It ending up to be a unique color so far. We'll see how it looks after a few more coats. I think 6-7 coats of tung-oil should do the trick. The first coat really made the grain pop. :D

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Most excellent! I'm curious how different that color is from what you expected. Meaning, is it a roll of the dice when using stain on a refinish?
 
I had been working on a intro to one of our songs. I had shared it with Omer a few weeks ago and didn't have a chance to work on it till yesterday. I was going to loop some stuff in but I didn't want to put a metronome in cause it was messing with my vibe, plus no one will be playing it with me so times not important. When I made the little sample riff up yesterday I thought it would go good with the song and make a easy chorus or verse. This is the 86 white Brooklyn, into MXR Carbon Copy with Analogman Chorus. The dirt is B3k and all ran into my Monique all tube preamp to the Audiobox USB. Software is Studio One2. Everything is flat and no processing out of Studio One. Thanks for listening and give me some feed back. I'm new to the home recording thing. Still to tackle midi drums:confused:

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This was very cool, Mike. Like Andrew said, I could totally hear this be a nice long intro and have the drums and guitars come in and then all hell breaks loose. Well done!

You guys are making me feel like I need to start contributing some clips, myself. Perhaps I should save some money and buy some recording tools - GarageBand doesn't capture the the true Spector tone.
 
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Most excellent! I'm curious how different that color is from what you expected. Meaning, is it a roll of the dice when using stain on a refinish?

It is a cool color but from the TransTint color chart, the Cordovan suppose to be a dark purple color. Mixed correctly but turned out different. I still like it the more I look at it :D

Here is a pic of the truss cover with stain and no tung-oil yet.

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This was very cool, Mike. Like Andrew said, I could totally hear this be a nice long intro and have the drums and guitars come in and then all hell breaks loose. Well done!

You guys are making me feel like I need to start contributing some clips, myself. Perhaps I should save some money and buy some recording tools - GarageBand doesn't capture the the true Spector tone.

Do it, I am really liking the Presonus Studio One, very easy and not that pricy.
 
Does it have drum loops in it?

That's my biggest thing, I want something easy to use that has drums.

That and affordability, of course.

There's always Reaper which is free I believe. It doesn't have drum samples AFAIK but you can get started with some Toontrack or SSD stuff pretty inexpensively and they both have MIDI libraries.

I've been using Cakewalk for over a decade now just because it's made for Windows and the upgrade price every year makes it an easy decision. If I ever go over to Mac I'll check out new host software, but right now my pro-built DAW with Sonar is very stable.
 
Well, the used NS-2 is here at last. It's in rougher shape than I expected, and as for the tone, it has more distortion when fully cranked than I expected. For those in the know, please look at the pre & tell me if it is a genuine Spector USA 9-volt HAZ. I'm going to buff the nut & frets, change the battery, string it with my D'Addario ProSteels and do some scrubbing & cleaning. More to follow...

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There's always Reaper which is free I believe. It doesn't have drum samples AFAIK but you can get started with some Toontrack or SSD stuff pretty inexpensively and they both have MIDI libraries.

I've been using Cakewalk for over a decade now just because it's made for Windows and the upgrade price every year makes it an easy decision. If I ever go over to Mac I'll check out new host software, but right now my pro-built DAW with Sonar is very stable.

Free stuff is always good. The Studio One comes with loop libraries like Uberschall Impact Drums, and a buch of stuff. Here is a screen shot of some of the stuff it has in the browser window.

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What are you guys using for your bass-to-computer interfaces? I've been looking at picking up a Line6 UX1, but don't know if I should be looking at other options first.

Audiobox USB or my StudioLive 16.4.2. Audiobox is around 150.00 and comes with StudioOne free version.

Well, the used NS-2 is here at last. It's in rougher shape than I expected, and as for the tone, it has more distortion when fully cranked than I expected. For those in the know, please look at the pre & tell me if it is a genuine Spector USA 9-volt HAZ. I'm going to buff the nut & frets, change the battery, string it with my D'Addario ProSteels and do some scrubbing & cleaning. More to follow...
Love it, I need one that color!
 
The pots and wiring looks right. I know the new boards are green, I'm no expert tho. I love the wear on that bass tho. It sounds like maybe the battery is dying or something is wrong I you get distortion. Other can probably help more than I

+1 looks like it to me. Worn hardware always looks good and it has the Gotoh's which I like better than the M4's. Have you put a fresh battery in it?
 
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